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Monday, August 5, 2013

Matthew Bannister, Executive Vice President of Communications for the American Heart Association issued a statement on the recent abuse of their recommendations by the Transcendental Meditation Disinformation Complex:

Unfortunately, we have found that some in the media, and many in the Transcendental Meditation community, have tried to overstate our findings to promote their own agendas.

Sadly many are not aware of the longstanding issue of the Transcendental Meditation Org promoting their meditation brand at all costs, even if that means lying or exaggerating to the public. It was only a couple of years ago that Julian Assange of Wikileaks fame found the secret inside documents detailing the Transcendental Meditation Org's concerted efforts at disinformation and manipulation of website comments.

As if this wasn't enough terrible news for the sellers of Transcendental Meditation, numerous improprieties were found in the research methodology that calls it's statistical manipulations into question.

As is typical in Transcendental Meditation research, the fact that there was a major conflict of interest with one of it's researchers is never mentioned. The person in question, Robert Schneider, MD (a cardiologist), actually appears in the documentary exposé David Wants to Fly, shilling for Transcendental Meditation from Maharishi's mansion in Holland. It turns out Dr. Schneider was a long time follower of the Maharishi's teachings and active in sales promotion for the organization. Tsk, tsk...